David Kirkpatrick: Steve Jobs Was Energetic, Confident, And Uncompromising

It’s been a sad twenty-four hours.

This afternoon, I sat down with longtime technology journalist David Kirkpatrick — who wrote The Facebook Effect and founded the Techonomy conference — to talk about Steve Jobs. Kirkpatrick met with Jobs many times throughout his career, and he had some insightful anecdotes to share on how Jobs conducted himself both at NeXT and during Apple’s resurgence over the last decade.